Mike Disman

Beacon Staff

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In a Student Government Association special election last Wednesday, positions for the class of 2015 treasurer and senator, class of 2013 vice president, class of 2014 treasurer, and performing arts senator were filled.

The first draft of an initiative calling for an increase to print credits given to Emerson students was unveiled at the Student Government Association meeting Tuesday, sparking a discussion about the most efficient way to raise the additional funds it would require.

Each year, a number of student organizations apply for recognition from the Student Government Association. For groups like as Your Magazine, which was newly recognized last year, the process occurs quickly and leaves little to debate.

President M. Lee Pelton announced that the 2013 commencement ceremony will now be held on the second Sunday in May at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in an email to the Emerson community on July 23.

Dr. Elise Harrison, a psychologist, was announced as the new director of the counseling center — following an eight-month search — on July 11 by Dean of Students Ronald Ludman and Vice President of Communications and Marketing Andrew Tiedemann.

When Colby Jackson applied to live off-campus for the first time, he thought he would be saving money.
However, the junior communication studies major said he was surprised when the college notified him that he would automatically be losing $5,000 of his scholarship, an Emerson grant, when living off-campus.

When freshman Zachary Tucker created Students Against T Cuts, an organization dedicated to protesting proposed fare hikes and service cuts to the Boston area public transportation service, he said he did not expect an outpouring of support.
However, the group now has almost 600 likes on Facebook, 294 followers on Twitter, and a slew of protests it has organized. Demonstrations have included a recent march by members and local unions, and a teach-in at Northeastern in which university professors lectured on the history and importance of the T.

When freshman Zachary Tucker created Students Against T Cuts, an organization dedicated to protesting proposed fare hikes and service cuts to the Boston area public transportation service, he said he did not expect an outpouring of support.
However, the group now has almost 600 likes on Facebook, 294 followers on Twitter, and a slew of protests it has organized. Demonstrations have included a recent march by members and local unions, and a teach-in at Northeastern in which university professors lectured on the history and importance of the T.

Three students have united to create an Emerson chapter of Students for Educational Reform, to combat what they feel is a flawed public education system.
Students for Educational Reform Co-Vice Presidents Donovan Birch Jr., Shannon Sweeny, and Chapter Head Erin Goodyear said they do not share each other’s viewpoints on public education. However, they all believe the negative repercussions hit closer to home than many Emerson students recognize.

Emerson occupiers joined more than 80 other college students at a summit at Harvard University Sunday to discuss systemic issues that do not normally receive attention at general assemblies, according to Emerson Occupies Boston member Mark Rizzo.
The Feb. 12 summit brought students from 18 local colleges and other New England schools to refocus the efforts of Boston’s student occupiers.

Emerson Occupies Boston member Mark Rizzo, walked home to his Cambridge apartment Dec. 10, an hour away from Dewey Square, where he had spent the night waiting for a police eviction of the encampment.
As he arrived, he said he received a text that said Dewey Square had been raided by the Boston Police Department. The tent city where Rizzo had spent much of the past two months of his life had vanished, the remaining protesters now incarcerated.

A year after college officials opened more campus practice studios for space-strapped performance groups — many of whom were forced into hallways and classrooms to prepare for shows — student organizations still struggle to book rooms.

President M. Lee Pelton announced Monday night that Emerson will host a conference in April on the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a bill that seeks to provide permanent residency to illegal minors who come to the United States as children and graduate from public high schools.
“There ought to be a coalition of college presidents, public and private, from every state, seeking to correct the ineptitude of Congress for not passing the so-called DREAM Act,” said Pelton at the end of his speech.